[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 239 (Thursday, December 11, 2008)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 75533-75534]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-29567]


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 Title 3--
 The President

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                Memorandum of December 9, 2008

                
Designation of Officers of the Pension Benefit 
                Guaranty Corporation To Act As Director of the Pension 
                Benefit Guaranty Corporation

                Memorandum for the Director of the Pension Benefit 
                Guaranty Corporation

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, including the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 
                1998, 5 U.S.C. 3345 et seq., it is hereby ordered that:

                Section 1. Order of Succession. Subject to the 
                provisions of section 2 of this memorandum, the 
                following officials of the Pension Benefit Guaranty 
                Corporation, in the order listed, shall act as and 
                perform the functions and duties of the office of the 
                Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation 
                (Director), during any period in which the Director has 
                died, resigned, or otherwise become unable to perform 
                the functions and duties of the office of Director, 
                until such time as the Director is able to perform the 
                functions and duties of that office:

                    (a) Deputy Director for Operations;
                    (b) Chief Management Officer;
                    (c) Chief Operating Officer; and
                    (d) General Counsel.

                Sec. 2. Exceptions. a) No individual who is serving in 
                an office listed in section 1 in an acting capacity, by 
                virtue of so serving, shall act as the Director 
                pursuant to this memorandum.

                    (b) No individual listed in section 1 shall act as 
                Director unless that individual is otherwise eligible 
                to so serve under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 
                1998.
                    (c) Notwithstanding the provisions of this 
                memorandum, the President retains discretion, to the 
                extent permitted by law, to depart from this memorandum 
                in designating an acting Director.

                Sec. 3. This memorandum is intended to improve the 
                internal management of the executive branch and is not 
                intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, 
                substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in 
                equity, by any party against the United States, it 
                agencies, instrumentalities, or entities, its officers, 
                employees, or agents, or any other person.

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                Sec. 4. You are authorized and directed to publish this 
                memorandum in the Federal Register.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, December 9, 2008.

[FR Doc. E8-29567
Filed 12-10-08; 12:00 pm]
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